Victorian Current Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 117

    (1)     Immediately on registering a firearm, the Chief Commissioner must issue a certificate of registration for that firearm to the person who possesses the firearm which—

        (a)     sets out the details of the registration of the firearm; and

        (b)     the name of the person who possesses the firearm; and

        (c)     any other prescribed information.

S. 117(2) inserted by No. 50/2007 s. 30.

    (2)     Despite subsection (1), the Chief Commissioner is not required to issue a certificate of registration in respect of a firearm if the Chief Commissioner is not aware of the person who possesses the firearm or of the licence particulars of the person who possesses the firearm.

S. 118 amended by No. 22/1998 s. 27.